Most obscure or strange sport witnessed.

[symyjym]

I saw aerobic gymnastics for the first time on Saturday at the Gemau Cymru...its a bit odd.

Here is an example...[yt]7xmtVR0v9y4[/yt]

I could do 95% of that routine

 

[symyjym]

 

[mjking73]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Kabaddi_World_Cup#Winner

We even lost in the semi-final of this sport too!

 

[countryman]

Kabaddi has got to be up there.

I saw a demonstration of it years ago in London, to this day I have not the faintest idea what it was all about.

When I was at school there was an Indian supply teacher who taught us to play it. I found it really boring but others seemed to enjoy it. I can't remember the rules though.

There was a game that a Spanish teacher taught us that I really liked but I can't remember what it was called. There were two teams that stood on their own line about 30ft from each other. Each person on each team was assigned a number. The referee stood in the middle of them holding a scarf. The referee would then call out a number and the one person on each team with that number would run to get the scarf being held out in the middle. If someone trod over the line in the middle before the scarf was grabbed then they are out. When the person got the scarf they had to run back to their own line with it and the person who didn't get it had to chase them. If they didn't touch them them they were out of the game. If they did touch them the person with the scarf was out. The team who loses all their players loses and the team who doesn't wins. Does anyone know what this game is called?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Does anyone know what this game is called?

Tag?

 

[aberllefenni]

Bog snorkelling at Llanwrytd Wells.

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

I've played padel in Spain, cross between squash and tennis. Popular there but only a few courts here.

 

[Return of the Rev]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPbKBo-KuM

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPbKBo-KuM

thought it was the Withdean for a minute

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Kabaddi has got to be up there.

I saw a demonstration of it years ago in London, to this day I have not the faintest idea what it was all about.

This, it's the whole holding your breath thing that gets me.

 

[Coach_Carter_92]

A great sport I played and learnt about is tchouckball, very similar to handball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0VWFK8PGWQ

 

[Dick Head]

Chess boxing must be up there.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

On holiday in Pau in 1992, we took in a game of Pelote. It's a Basque version of squash; the players pick up a ball in a thing like a longer, slimmer version of a table tennis bat, and hurl it at a wall. I think the player returning the ball has to pick it up on the racket before he can hit it again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEfT-3VuGAw

 

[beorhthelm]

curling. come on, admit it, its pretty damn strange game which has no obvious link to any skill you would require outside of the sport.

 

[Mowgli37]

Clusterf*cking - Brazil just gave a pretty good demonstration.